169 pages ; 18 cm

This collection of writings, assembled at a time of crisis for NYC community gardens, imagines the radical possibilities of urban gardening. Bringing together NYC history, political analysis, utopian schemes, poetic accounts of what gardening can create, and investigations into the dynamics of sustainability, community, high and low technologies, and power, this book challenges the Supermarket to the World ideologies of global capital. Includes work by Sarah Ferguson, Jack Collom, Carmelo Ruiz, the editors, and others

Includes bibliographical references

Avant gardening / Peter Lamborn Wilson -- The greening of Harlem / Bernadette Cozart -- ¡Viva Losaida Libre! / Bill Weinberg -- The garden / Bernadette Mayer -- The death of Little Puerto Rico ; A brief history of grassroots greening on the Lower East Side / Sarah Ferguson -- Winner and losers in the biotechnology revolution / Carmelo Ruiz -- Peeing on a lilypad (and other musings on gardens and art) / Lyx Ish -- Clearcutting the East Village / John Wright -- Hyper wilderness/hyper culture / Miekal And -- A few crumbs from the Houston Street median stripe naturewalk / Jack Collom -- Paradise gardening / Joe Hollis

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